I want to ditch Razer Synapse because it eats up to 600MB of RAM for nothing. I just want to use my macros for two additional keys found on my Razer Deathadder. I've sucessfully captured the HID packets for my Corsair K95 keyboard with C++ HID API and executed my macros, finally was able to say bye bye to iCUE. But I'm not able to open mouse as HID device. Everything should be configured properly, VID/PID, UsagePage and Usage too. But the interesting thing is that wireshark is able to capture the mouse, for me it doesn't for even when I try to open it with admin priveliges. Does somebody have any idea what I should do?
I've tried hidapitester application which is part of HIDAPI C++ library, it automatically closes the device and doesn't receive anything. If it's not possible to solve it in this way, which approach I should use to be able to capture the packets?
Thank you.
You cannot open keyboard and mouse hid device handles for a security reasons (so you can’t write a keylogger etc). It by design in Windows.
Official workaround is to write a keyboard/mouse filter driver. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-driver-samples/mouse-input-wdf-filter-driver-moufiltr/